“Actually, she had now made it extremely likely that, if Germany developed any expansionist tendencies at all, the French would be dragged into another war—exactly what the alliances were all supposed to avoid.” — James L. Stokesbury Copy Share Image
“Is it too imaginative to say that if the Schlieffen Plan had worked, Adolf Hitler might have remained a private in the List Regiment… — James L. Stokesbury Copy Share Image
“The wars of the mid-nineteenth century had been short, and they had been won by the state that got the most men in the… — James L. Stokesbury Copy Share Image
“Actually, she had now made it extremely likely that, if Germany developed any expansionist tendencies at all, the French would be dragged into another… — James L. Stokesbury Copy Share Image
“None of the treaties could disguise the basic fact of European life—a united Germany was potentially the strongest power on the Continent. France began… — James L. Stokesbury Copy Share Image
“The Russian delegation, led by Maxim Litvinov, proposed complete and immediate disarmament for everybody; this was rejected out of hand as a Bolshevik trick.” — James L. Stokesbury Copy Share Image
“The fact that France and Britain did go on to win the war preserved their great-power status, but to a very considerable extent they… — James L. Stokesbury Copy Share Image
“This meant there could be no German rearmament; that meant there could be no equality of arms, and that in turn, by the convoluted… — James L. Stokesbury Copy Share Image
“In 1932, a commission of the League of Nations produced a preparatory draft for a general scheme of disarmament. The proposal, however, left untouched… — James L. Stokesbury Copy Share Image
“Darwin had said the fittest survived, and the Social Darwinists completed the circle. The best way to demonstrate fitness to survive was to dominate… — James L. Stokesbury Copy Share Image
“The Battle of the Marne was the end of the Schlieffen Plan, the end of the era of short wars, and the end of… — James L. Stokesbury Copy Share Image
“So beautiful was that summer that those who survived it invested it with a golden haze; it assumed a retrospective poignancy, as if before… — James L. Stokesbury Copy Share Image
“Britain and France, honoring their pledge to Poland made earlier in the year, declared war on Germany on September 3. The war lasted nearly… — James L. Stokesbury Copy Share Image
